October 25, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govWhile the court declined emergency order, case will move forward
SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today issued the following statement after the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California denied an emergency motion filed by California and a coalition of attorneys general to compel the federal government to continue to pay the Affordable Care Act (A

October 25, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govLIBOR manipulation hurt government and non-profit organizations in California and across the country
SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced a $220 million multistate settlement with Deutsche Bank for fraudulent conduct involving the manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR). LIBOR is the rate at which banks lend money to one another. It is a key financial tool t

October 23, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govState AGs to Members of Congress: “Please do not let concealed reciprocity become the next federal loophole lamented in the aftermath of a tragedy”
SACRAMENTO – Today, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and a coalition of 16 fellow attorneys general sent a letter to Congressional leadership urging them to reject legislation that would force every state to recognize the conceal

October 20, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govLOS ANGELES – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced a lawsuit against Curacao, a retail store chain that ranks among the 50 largest electronics and appliance retailers in the United States and has nine locations in Southern California. The company actively markets its products to members of the Latino community – specifically low-income individuals, Spanish speakers, and immigrants – who

October 19, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govIn 1990, California Outlawed Bump Stocks
SACRAMENTO – The California Department of Justice today issued an advisory reminding gun retailers that bump stocks, also known as "multiburst trigger activators" because they accelerate the rapid-fire capacity of a firearm, are illegal in California. Bump stocks reportedly were used in the Las Vegas shooting on October 1, the deadliest mass shooting in mo

October 19, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govSACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced a $120 million multistate settlement with General Motors Company (GM) over allegations that the company concealed safety issues related to defective ignition switches in GM vehicles. California will be receiving over $7 million. The settlement, reached among the attorneys general of 49 states and the District of Columbia and GM, concludes a multistat

October 19, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govSACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today urged the Veterans Administration (VA) to preserve a policy that protects veterans from receiving biased advice when making decisions about their education. Currently, VA employees are subject to stringent rules that govern their relationships with predatory for-profit colleges, which have a long history of exploiting veterans. But, on September 14, the V

October 18, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govLOS ANGELES – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed a lawsuit earlier this week against Consumer Rights Legal Services, a so-called “investment recovery marketer” that preyed on victims of securities fraud. This defendant allegedly purchased lists with names of vulnerable investors, many of whom were elderly. The purchased lists, known as “sucker lists,” are used to identify individuals

October 18, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govSAN FRANCISCO – In light of the Trump Administration’s abrupt refusal to make the October cost-sharing subsidy payments required by the Affordable Care Act, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today filed a motion to compel the federal government to follow the law and pay the subsidies that millions of Americans rely on to lower the out-of-pocket costs in their insurance plans.
“This is

October 17, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govSACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education for unlawfully delaying critical provisions of the Gainful Employment Rule, an Obama-era protection that requires for-profit schools to prepare students for “gainful employment in a recognized occupation.” These provisions were set to take effect on July 1, 2017, but Education Secretary Betsy

October 17, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govSACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, together with New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas, filed a lawsuit today against the U.S. Department of the Interior for unlawfully repealing a rule that ensures taxpayers and States receive fair value for oil, gas, and coal extracted from public and tribal lands. California and New Mexico apply their portion of these royalties towards public education.&nbs

October 17, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govSACRAMENTO — Amid historic wildfires, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today called on the California Hotel & Lodging Association, North Bay Association of Realtors, and California Apartment Association to help educate their members about the State’s anti-price gouging statute.
“As wildfires rage across California, it's vital to broadcast to all that our State&rsqu

October 17, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govSACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration for failing to comply with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). On June 29, Attorney General Becerra and nine attorneys general sent a letter to three agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seeking information about changes to federal immigration enforcement practices under the Trump Ad

October 16, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govSACRAMENTO - California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today joined the Massachusetts Attorney General and 13 states in filing a multistate amicus brief in support of the plaintiffs in Doe v. Trump. The case challenges President Trump's efforts to ban transgender people from serving openly in the U.S. military.
“When someone demonstrates the courage, passion and ability to serve and protect our nation, th

October 13, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govTrump Administration’s abrupt decision to halt healthcare subsidies made possible by the Affordable Care Act will increase health care costs for Californians
SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra led a coalition of 18 states and the District of Columbia in filing a lawsuit in the Northern District of California against the Trump Administration’s abrupt decision

October 12, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govAction Against Oil Giant Ensures Competition and Protects California’s Dynamic Economy
SACRAMENTO – Just three months after California Attorney General Xavier Becerra challenged a proposed asset sale that could lead to higher gas prices for consumers in California, a state court has signed a final judgment prohibiting Valero Energy Corporation from acquiring from Plains All American Pipeline the last independe

October 12, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govSACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today joined 17 fellow attorneys general in a friend-of-the-court brief filed in the United States Supreme Court to protect employees who face discrimination based on their sexual orientation. In Evans v. Ga. Regional Hospital, the Court is considering whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation. The am

October 11, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govCalifornia joins Washington State's efforts to secure a temporary restraining order to halt enforcement of latest unconstitutional travel ban
SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra joined attorneys general from the States of Washington, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and Oregon to seek a temporary restraining order to halt enforcement of the Trump Administration’s

October 9, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govSACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today issued a consumer alert following the Governor’s declaration of a state of emergency in Napa, Sonoma, and Yuba Counties due to widespread fires. Attorney General Becerra reminds all Californians that price gouging during a state of emergency is illegal under Penal Code Section 396.
“Fires are raging in some of California’s most beautiful lands,&rdq

October 9, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govStudies suggest that as many as one in five undergraduate female students has experienced an attempted or completed sexual assault
SACRAMENTO – With the beginning of a new academic year, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra delivered a guidance letter to colleges, universities, local law enforcement agencies, and campus security personnel across the State clarifying protections against sexual assault in California.

October 9, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govSACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today issued the following statement in response to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt announcing that EPA will begin the process of repealing the jointly-developed federal-state Clean Power Plan. The Clean Power Plan requires greenhouse gas reductions from the power sector, the country's largest stationary source of clima

October 6, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govNew federal rules would allow employers to discriminate against female employees
SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Trump-Pence Administration’s new rules that will deny access to contraceptives for millions of women and their families by allowing employers to interfere with healthcare. The rules jeopardi

October 5, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govSACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra released the following statement today, following Governor Jerry Brown’s signing of SB 54, the California Values Act:
"I applaud the Legislature and Governor Brown for their work to enact the California Values Act (SB 54 by Senate President Pro Tempore Kevin de León). California is determined to utilize all the talent and energy that have made us the eco

October 4, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govSACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today issued the following statement after the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that the Trump Administration’s Department of the Interior (DOI) illegally delayed the Waste Prevention Rule. Finalized in November 2016, the Waste Prevention Rule provides a much-needed update to DOI’s regulations governing the waste of natural gas

October 4, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govSACRAMENTO – Attorney General Xavier Becerra issued a consumer alert to warn Californians about sham charities being started following Sunday’s shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. The shooting has thus far claimed the lives of 59 individuals and wounded more than 500, including Californians. This is the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history.
The California Attorney General has the primary responsibility for supervisi

September 28, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govAG Becerra: Clean Water Rule Was Legally Promulgated, Based on Science, And Protects Our Water Resources
SACRAMENTO — Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed his strong opposition to the Trump Administration’s attempt to repeal the 2015 Clean Water Rule, which would protect California’s lakes, rivers, and streams from pollutants. The Clean Water Rule was developed using a science-based approach to clarify the defi

September 28, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govSACRAMENTO – On behalf of the People of California, the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, and a coalition of 10 attorneys general, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed an amicus brief in support of the efforts by the Natural Resources Defense Council and private businesses Honeywell International and Chemour to have the full D.C. Circuit

September 26, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govSACRAMENTO – Attorney General Xavier Becerra today criticized Education Secretary Betsy DeVos for continuing to roll back important protections for student borrowers. Specifically, Secretary DeVos recently announced that the Department of Education would terminate two memoranda of understanding with the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau (CFPB). These agreements were designed to increase cooperation between the

September 26, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govSACRAMENTO – Attorney General Becerra today called on the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) to adopt overtime rules that protect the pay of Americans who work extra hours. Under President Obama’s leadership, USDOL in 2016 made the first meaningful updates to the overtime rule in decades, covering an additional 4 million workers by ensuring that they could not be denied overtime pay because they fell into the &ldqu

September 25, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govSACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra joined New York and 11 other states in filing an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court to protect voters from having their names unlawfully removed from lists of registered voters. In Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute et al., the Supreme Court will decide whether Ohio’s process for removing voters from its voter regist

September 23, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govBy Mike McPhate
If there’s a Democratic revolt against the Trump administration, California’s attorney general is arguably one of its more important architects.
Since taking the job in January, Xavier Becerra has brought dozens of legal actions against the federal government.
He has challenged the travel ban, threats to federal funding, the plan to end the “dreamer” program, changes to health care and envi

September 21, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govSACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced the concurrent filing of a complaint and a settlement involving allegations that The Gatorade Company violated California consumer protection laws by making misleading statements about water in a mobile videogame application it used to promote Gatorade sports drinks to teens and young adults.
The complaint filed by the Attorney General alleges

September 20, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govAG Becerra files lawsuit to protect Californians, environment against executive overreach in border wall projects
SAN DIEGO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today challenged the Trump Administration over its plan to begin construction of border wall projects in San Diego and Imperial Counties. In a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, on behalf of the people of t

September 19, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govUnited States Supreme Court to hear arguments on October 10
SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, along with 17 States, today filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court opposing the Trump Administration’s effort to impose a travel ban on people from six predominantly Muslim countries. The Supreme Court will hear arguments on the case on October 10.
In the brief, Attorney Ge

September 19, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govWASHINGTON, DC – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra testified today before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on The Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 2017 (S. 1693). The legislation would help protect children and other vulnerable individuals from sex trafficking.
Attorney General Becerra offered witness testimony in support of S. 1693, which was sponsored by Senator Rob Portm

September 18, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govSACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today issued the following statement after Valero Energy Corporation and Valero Energy Partners LP (“Valero”) announced that they are abandoning their plans to take over the last independent petroleum distribution terminal in Martinez, California, from Plains All American Pipeline, LP. In State of California v. Valero Energy Corporation, Atto

September 18, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.gov37 State Attorneys General expand opioids investigation
SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced that California and 36 other states are expanding their investigation to seek information from additional pharmaceutical manufacturers and the three largest distributors of opioids to determine if the companies engaged in unlawful pr

September 15, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govSACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today reiterated his call for consumers to take action to protect their identities in light of the recent Equifax data breach. As Attorney General Becerra and his team at the California Department of Justice continue to work with Equifax to get to the bottom of this unacceptable breach of consumers’ trust, he urges all Californians to heed the following guid

September 15, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govLuther Feltus-Curry and Alma Perez to serve nearly 24 years and 10 years respectively in prison
SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced a state prison sentence of 23 years and eight months for Luther Feltus-Curry, a Vallejo pastor who masterminded a malicious fraud scheme preying on members of his own church congregation. Earlier this year, his co-conspirator Alma Per

September 11, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govBy Marcos Bretón
September 11, 2017
http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/marcos-breton/article172281727.html
By virtue of his position as attorney general of California, Xavier Becerra is and will be a frequent adversary of President Donald Trump and his policies.
This past month, Becerra announced that California was suing the U.S. Department of Justice over Trump administration threats to cut off public sa

September 11, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govMinnesota, Maryland, and Maine join California in lawsuit standing up for Dreamers
SACRAMENTO – Today, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, joined by the attorneys general for Minnesota, Maryland and Maine, filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration over its decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals initiative (DACA). The four States filed the suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern Di

September 11, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govSACRAMENTO — Leading a coalition of five attorneys general, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration for illegally delaying a rule that encourages automakers to produce vehicle fleets that meet or exceed federal fuel efficiency standards.
Set to take effect this past July, the rule would increase the penalty imposed on automakers whose vehicle flee

September 11, 2017Contact: (415) 703-5837, agpressoffice@doj.ca.govRSVP for press conference by emailing agpressoffice@doj.ca.gov
Press conference will be streamed live at oag.ca.gov
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SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra will hold a press conference today at 11:00am PDT to announce a lawsuit against the Trump Administration for rescinding Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). He will be